{"id":65212,"date":"2023-12-22T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=65212"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:44:56","slug":"kurti-reacts-to-lajcak-and-shows-how-the-normalization-of-relations-with-serbia-can-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/kurti-reacts-to-lajcak-and-shows-how-the-normalization-of-relations-with-serbia-can-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurti reacts to Lajcak and shows how the normalization of relations with Serbia can happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has\ngiven some recommendations with which the normalization of relations with\nSerbia will be possible in 2024. Based on the recent declaration of the\nEuropean Special Representative, Miroslav Lajcak, that the draft statute for\nthe Association is an internal matter of Kosovo, in the next year, he said that\nhe can write a modern European draft.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kurti wrote on Facebook that he believes that\nBrussels and the European Special Representative Lajcak will deal much more\nwith the President of Serbia, Vucic, who stole the elections in Serbia with the\nhelp of Dodik, Mandic and Radojicic (especially in Belgrade) and who withdrew\nfrom the Basic Agreement of February 27, 2023 (through the letter of Prime\nMinister Ana Bernabiq), instead of putting public pressure with options that\nturn democratic and pro-European Kosovo into a problematic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normalization of Relations towards 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) The absolute priority for the Government of\nthe Republic of Kosovo is security for Kosovo, the territorial integrity of the\nstate and the life and well-being of citizens without distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) The conclusions of the investigations into\nthe terrorist and criminal attack of September 24 in Banjska of Zve\u00e7an, when\nSergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed, must be made public immediately. Millan\nRadojicic and the members of his paramilitary group must be handed over to the\nKosovo authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) I hope that the European Union and the USA\nwill impose sanctions on Serbia, especially its President Aleksandar Vucic, for\nthe hostile and aggressive behavior and actions towards Kosovo, for the\nescalation in the north of our country, and for renouncing the Basic Agreement\n(through the letter of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Bernabiq, dated\nDecember 14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) My request is that the punitive measures of\nthe EU and the USA towards Kosovo be removed, and that our country be given the\nstatus of a candidate country for the EU and the Partnership for Peace with\nNATO. This is exactly how our Western partners would strongly ask Serbia to\nimplement the obligation of de facto recognition of Kosovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) I was told that Serbia should also accept\nthe draft statute of the Association (therefore, since the Ohrid meeting, I\noffered to write it on three principles, an offer that was rejected by Vucic).\nAccording to the last statement of the European Special Representative Miroslav\nLajcak, since the draft statute is only an internal issue of Kosovo, in the\nnext year, I can write a modern European draft in consultation with my\nministers Nenad Rashiq (Community and Return) and Elbert Krasniqi (Local\nGovernment Administration).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6) The Basic Agreement (with the Implementation Annex) for the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia could be signed at the European Council Summit held on March 21 and 22, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> 7) I believe that Brussels and also the European Special Representative Lajcak will deal much more with the President of Serbia Vucic who stole the elections in Serbia with the help of Dodik, Mandic, and Radojicic (especially in Belgrade) and who withdrew from the Basic Agreement of February 27, 2023 (through the letter of Prime Minister Ana Bernabiq), instead of putting public pressure on us with options that turn democratic and pro-European Kosovo into a problematic topic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has given some recommendations with which the normalization of relations with Serbia will be possible in 2024. Based on the recent declaration of the European Special Representative, Miroslav Lajcak, that the draft statute for the Association is an internal matter of Kosovo, in the next year, he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302,306,296],"tags":[445,726,1289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65214,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65212\/revisions\/65214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}